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Pattie Boyd Sloat with member of the Beatles George Harrison and guitarist Eric Clapton is one of the most discussed love triangles In the history of rock and roll. Model, Boyd was considered one of the most influential Muses of the 60s - which shot the heart of Harrison and later Clapton, who made a chance for his affection for more than a decade. She inspired love songs and hot love letters, the latter, which are now sold at auction for more than $ 12,600 per piece.

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Boyd separates from a Personal collection of letters , Words and photographs of his time with Harrison and Clapton, tell The telegraph Let revisit the memories "makes me terribly sad".

"I have had them all for so many years, too long," said Boyd. "I thought, why didn't I sell everything and don't let everyone enjoy it?"

Precious articles - which are sold by Christie's —Plemer homemade cards and scratches by Harrison with original paintings. However, some of the most remarkable artifacts are from Clapton, who wrote a series of passionate handwritten letters expressing his unshakable love for Boyd, during his marriage to the guitarist of the Beatles.

The telegraph Note that the first of them arrived in the spring of 1970, only four years after Boyd married Harrison. The couple lived in the Oxfordshire after meeting on the shooting of the 1964s A hard day's Night .

"Very well L, I write this note to you, in the main goal of verifying your feelings towards a well -known subject of both of us ..." Clapton begins his letter, as shown by Christie's.

Elsewhere in the note, Clapton asks Boyd if she is still in love with Harrison, or if someone else.

"All these questions are very sassy, I know, but if there is still a feeling in your heart for me ... You must let me know," he wrote, before signing "all my love, E. ""

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In an interview with Christie's, Boyd admitted that she originally thought that the letter came from "A Weird Fan" and even "showed it to George" as a joke. It was only when Clapton made a comment on Boyd's mail that she made who was her secret admirer.

With hindsight, Boyd says that Clapton's prosecution arrived at a time when cracks were already starting to show himself in his marriage and, at the same time, in the Beatles.

"George and I were crossing a little spikes together. Recalled in his interview with Christie's.

Things have reached a fever when Clapton wrote the love song "Layla" for Boyd. Shortly after, the musician also admitted to Harrison that he had feelings for Harrison's wife. The following letter from the collection was written for months later on a peak page of the classic novel Of mice and Men.

Clapton approaches the letter to Layla, his nickname Boyd.

"For nothing more than past pleasures, I would sacrifice my family, my God and my own existence ... Why do you hesitate, am I a poor lover, am I ugly, am I too weak, too strong, Do you know why? "He asks.

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Speak with The telegraph , Boyd described Clapton's love letters as "desperate and passionate", but also "heartbreaking". In his eyes, Clapton's love is "a passion that flowers once in a life".

"I had them in a small chest and sometimes I will take a look and start reading, and my heart is jumping, it jumps, because it's heartbreaking. They are too painful in their beauty," she sharing. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

The couple did not communicate until several years later, when Clapton presented himself to her and at the Harrison residence unexpected, and the two musicians competed in a guitar duel in the running for the love of Boyd . In his interview with Christie's, Boyd noted that Harrison's relationship with drugs had intensified and that he was looking for romantic relationships outside their marriage, including with his compatriot Beatle Ringo Starr's wife, and the wife of guitarist Rolling Stones Ronnie Wood .

Boyd divorced Harrison in 1974, and Clapton finally obtained his wish to marry Boyd in 1979. However, their relationship was also prey to drug addiction and business, and they broke the links in 1987.

For his part, Boyd is ready to leave the past.

"I thought," Do I need them? Should I continue to go to the Pandora box? "I have appreciated them for many years, and now it is time for others to see them and to appreciate them," she told Christie's to auction lovers. "It's just that I should transmit them."